[Tagging] power=* tag: minor_line vs. line

[François Lacombe]

2015-11-03 10:39 GMT+01:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:16:55 -0400
> Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> wrote:
>
>> Trying to define this based on line voltage or tower heights or
>> danger to aircraft is silly.  Transmission and distribution lines can
>> be located underground.
>
> Why? For almost everybody electric lines are orientation points. For
> these purposes it is completely unimportant whatever given line is
> transmission or distribution.

This point is well understandable but I disagree to say that landscape
is *more* important than anything else regarding power lines mapping.
Tagging isn't the right tool to say what is important or what isn't.

It is true that a part of the community only consider them for
orientation but other people can use that piece of data differently.
Both landscape and network approach are valuable and I don't see the
point behind using the global power key to deal with a particular
property.

A "minor line" in landscape (or even underground) can be major from
another point of view.



François